Flarum search functionalities

Webinsane

Can you tell us a bit how search on Flarum works? Do you have intentions to create support for Elasticsearch? Search has been downfall for all forum software. Please note that Xenforo with Elasticsearch enabled produces results unmatched by any default forum installation.

Franz

Check out the code if you want to see how it works. 🙂

Making the architecture pluggable and creating adapters for e.g. ElasticSearch is on the horizon, yes.

Webinsane

I will check everything in detail. Just installed Flarum and everything went smooth.

yagobski

Any progress about Elasticsearch project?

jordanjay29

Flarum will be updating its Laravel components to 5.3,and that gives way to use Laravel Scout to improve search.

elinw

Hi I'm interested to try and integrate elasticsearch with Flarum, and have run into some problems - hoping somebody might be able to help please!

So far I've attempted to install Laravel Scout, using: composer require laravel/scout
This returns:
"Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages."

It seems that illuminate/bus is currently at v5.1.41, but a higher version is needed?

When I run php flarum info, I'm getting the following:

Flarum core 0.1.0-beta.7
PHP 7.1.16
Loaded extensions: Core, bcmath, calendar, ctype, date, filter, hash, iconv, json, mcrypt, SPL, pcre, readline, Reflection, session, standard, mysqlnd, tokenizer, zip, zlib, libxml, dom, PDO, openssl, SimpleXML, xml, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, curl, fileinfo, gd, mbstring, Phar, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pgsql, xmlrpc
EXT flarum-approval v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-bbcode v0.1.0-beta.5
EXT flarum-emoji v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-english v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-flags v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-likes v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-lock v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-markdown v0.1.0-beta.5
Base URL: http://localhost/flarum
Installation path: C:\Apache24\htdocs\flarum

I'm very mew to Flarum (and I'm not a PHP programmer),, so I don't have any idea whether it's ok to override / force a higher revision of illuminate/bus ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

clarkwinkelmann

elinw Flarum beta7 is using an old version of Laravel components. I believe Scout is more recent than that and as such depends on newer Laravel components version.

Beta8 will include upgraded Laravel components which might help you get this integration working. If you're feeling adventurous you can try writing your extension for the development version of Flarum. You'll find topics on this forum on how to setup the dev-master (very unstable, future beta8) version.